IMPERIAL POLITICS.

West Coast Times, 22 June 1912, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

LABOUR UNREST.

[pRR PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. 1 LONDON, June 20.

The Rt. Hon Austen Chamberlain, speaking at Slieffield. said that the unprecedented labour unrest required the Government’s and Parliament’s attention,, not the destruction of an ancient constitution, the plunder of a venerable church, and the Jer-ry-mandering of constituencies against their interests. The faction - unrest was due to Ministers striving by every artifice and terminological inexactitude to set class against class. The Budget campaign sowed the seeds of trouble and other causes were the increased cost of necessaries of life and the workers legitimate desire to raise the standard of life. This was unachievable simply byarguing that Capital was labour’s enemy. Mr. Chamberlain concluded bj.blaming the Government for turning a deaf ear to the offers of the Dominions for Imperial preference and slamming the door in the face of their kinsmen.

BRITISH PARLIAMENT. LONDON, June 20—The Daily News says the Government intend that Parliament shall rise on the 10th of August till the 10th of October. The House will sit, if necessary, iato\l9l3, to pass the Home Rule Bill, the Welsh Disestablishment Bill and the Manhood Franchise Bill.